Need somethg small and gay to play? We might have the perfect game for you. Back 2017, gaymers uned to celebrate the creatn of Dream Daddy: A Dad…
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- DREAM DADDY: HOW THE GAY DAD DATG SIM BEME A H GAME OF THE SUMMER
- DREAM DADDY PC GAME REVIEW: GREAT ART N'T SAVE THIS GAY DAD DATG SIM
- ‘DREAM DADDY’ GAME CREATORS ON CRAFTG AN “HONT” GAY EXPERIENCE
DREAM DADDY: HOW THE GAY DAD DATG SIM BEME A H GAME OF THE SUMMER
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The game, which sts you as a fun-lovg dad lookg for love among the hot dads your new town, has drawn praise as well as nsirable cricism for s unprecented take on queer masculy, s arguably fantastil pictns of gay romance, and s marketg to a primarily female fan base. On the other, the game has drawn cricisms of beg fetishistic, signed ls for actual gay men than for women and straight people wantg to treat gay men as play dolls.
Or is a highly romanticized, fetishistic treatment of real gay inty? The characters, as many slash fics, exist a distorted versn of realy where everyone is gay and homophobia don’t seem to exist.
But while this approach has ma the game extremely popular fandom and more mastream spac, ’s nfed and alienated a number of potential players — cludg some gay men.
DREAM DADDY PC GAME REVIEW: GREAT ART N'T SAVE THIS GAY DAD DATG SIM
On the one hand, the game’s tenncy to ialize male/male relatnships and gay muni mak a fun fantasy for all to enjoy — and the game clearly has found an dience among gay men as well as other fans. It’s ma specifilly for straight women to fetishize gay men.
It’s a game that gay men are ignorg. No, ’s a game that gay men are gettg up arms about at the expense of appreciatg a meangful queer narrative.
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‘DREAM DADDY’ GAME CREATORS ON CRAFTG AN “HONT” GAY EXPERIENCE
Mulker poted out that the game never the words “gay, ” “bi, ” or “trans, ” spe havg character exampl of each. “Dream Daddy’s biggt failg is that don’t feel like a game ma for or by gay people, ” he wrote.
“It don’t pture the experience of what feels like to be a gay man and fails to engage wh or voke gay culture a meangful way. “I personally thk that the fal game is a great example of gay romanc, ” he said.
“It feels like any other romance game; mak beg gay feel regular. For Pregegg, Mulker’s stickg pot about the word “gay” never beg ed the game meant that Dream Daddy don’t “foc on a weird or fetish-y way on s gayns. “Beg gay is never even really mentned the game, ’s jt accepted, which has hontly been so rehg and nice, ” Pregegg said.